Raoul Cedras

Raoul Cedras (9 July 1949-) was the leader of the Haitian military junta from 30 September to 8 October 1991. He seized power in a coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power, and he was the de facto leader of Haiti as its army's commander-in-chief until 1994.

Biography
Raoul Cedras was born in Jeremie, Haiti on 9 July 1949 to a mulatto family, and he was trained in the United States and Spain before being appointed by the USA and France to oversee the 1990-1991 election. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made him commander-in-chief of the army, and Cedras prorduced CIA reports critical of Aristide's government. On 29 September 1991, Cedras ousted Aristide from power in a military coup, and 3,000 men, women, and children were murdered by the military junta. In 1994, he was convinced by the USA to depart for Panama after the US intervened in Haiti, and he remained in exile there after the coup regime was defeated.